Adds a bulk action to all post types to allow setting the publish date to a specific date time.
Adds a bulk action to all post types to allow setting the publish date to a specific date time.
The bulk action is by default applied to all post types.
The plugin uses input types of date and time to allow users to set the desired publish date / time.
This is a very lightweight plugin as has as little code as possible, and is also designed to be developer friendly
with alter hooks allowing other plugins to make changes to how this plugin operates.
The easiest way to install this plugin is to go to Add New in the Plugins section of your blog admin and search for
“Bulk edit publish date.” On the far right side of the search results, click “Install.”
If the automatic process above fails, follow these simple steps to do a manual install:
/wp-content/plugins/
directoryThe post types that this should be applied to can be editing by using the bulk_edit_publish_date_post_types filter.
For example you could put this in your code to remove the bulk action from the post type “post”:
add_filter('bulk_edit_publish_date_post_types', 'my_plugin_bulk_edit_publish_date_post_types'); function my_plugin_bulk_edit_publish_date_post_types($post_types) { unset($post_types['post']); return $post_types; }
Yes, the filter bulk_edit_publish_date_post_update_data can be used to make any changes to the update data before the
post is saved.
Yes, the filter bulk_edit_publish_date_admin_notice can be used to make any changes to the admin notice before it’s
output to the screen.